Rhod Gilbert
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Rhodri "Rhod" Gilbert, (born 18 October 1968) is a Welsh
comedian
who was nominated in 2005 for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, he was nominated for the main if.comedy (as the Edinburgh Comedy Awards were then branded).
He appears on television and radio panel shows, has performed stand-up on the Royal Variety Performance
, and hosts a weekly show on BBC Radio Wales
.
, Wales and studied languages at Exeter University
. For the first three weeks, such was his painful shyness that Gilbert was unable to eat with other students in the canteen or even make friends with the student in the next room.
After graduating, Gilbert travelled for a year and a half around Australia
and Asia
before returning to Carmarthen and working as an admin assistant for the Welsh Office
. After this he worked as a qualitative researcher for a number of different market research
agencies in London
.
Many of Gilbert's stories are based around real life events, and his life in the wholly fictionalised village of Llanbobl. Originally invented to ensure an English
heckler
had nothing real to grasp on to, it has since been geographically defined as being situated between "Wrexham
and Holyhead
, just north of Newtown, Powys," and a sort of "grown-up Thomas the Tank Engine
" location. Gilbert has described the number of audience members that come up to him at the end of shows, and say they have been to Llanbobl for holidays, and even that an English rugby union
team "hammered" the Llanbobl team. Gilbert also admitted that he "may have 'accidentally' sent the rugby player that told him on a 7 hour goose-chase" to come back to Llanbobl and meet him. In 2008, Gilbert wrote a sitcom
around life in Llanbobl, which featured on BBC Radio 2
.
In his 2006 Edinburgh Fringe
show Knocking on Heaven's Door, Gilbert told stories from his life, weighing up whether he would be admitted to heaven. His 2007 show, Who's Eaten Gilbert's Grape? saw Gilbert return to Llanbobl and pick up the story following the 1984 show narrative. His 2008 show, Rhod Gilbert and the Award-Winning Mince Pie, saw Gilbert question his sanity, his career and his life after suffering a mental breakdown brought on by the award-winning mince pie at a motorway services.
On 17 December 2008 he appeared at the 80th Royal Variety Performance
.
Gilbert's 2009/10 show, entitled Rhod Gilbert And The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst
, was announced on 5 April. The show previewed around the UK in small venues, before being performed at the Edinburgh Festival. The show toured UK theatres from September 2009.
On 18–19 June 2009, Gilbert made the last performances of Rhod Gilbert And The Award-Winning Mince Pie show at the Bloomsbury Theatre, which was recorded and released as a DVD on 16 November 2009. The DVD also contains several special features, including his infamous rant about lost luggage, outtakes from the performance and a mockumentary
called Back To Llanbobl in which Gilbert shows the viewer around his fictional home town.
From September 2009 to April 2010 he toured the UK with a new show titled Rhod Gilbert and the Cat that Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst; the tour included dates at many prestigious theatres such as London's HMV Hammersmith Apollo
. A DVD of the tour was released on 15 November 2010.
On 14 October 2010, Gilbert cancelled a stand up show in Swindon
after coming down with pneumonia
. In 2011 he is beginning a series of warm-up/new material gigs across the country. One of the first is happening in Machynlleth
, as part of the Machynlleth Comedy Festival. After his 150 date 2009/2010 tour, Rhod is taking a break from stand-up but has revealed he plans to tour again in 2012.
, and has presented an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks
in October 2009 and an episode of Have I Got News for You
in April 2011. He has also appeared as a guest on Channel 4
's 8 Out of Ten Cats, and has used his comedy talents to write and narrate BBC Three
's 2007 Goals Galore, Pranks Galore, Football Gaffes Galore and TV Gaffes Galore programmes. He has also presented BBC 2W
's, Rhod Gilbert's Teen Tribes, providing an insight into the teen tribal worlds of "Emos", "Chavs" and "Goths".
Gilbert was Paramount Comedy
's continuity writer and announcer between September 2004 and October 2005, providing end-credit voice-overs for their peaktime programme schedule.
In December 2008 Gilbert was signed for an advertising campaign to further promote tourism in Wales and became the official Voice Of Wales for the country's tourist-board, fronting the 2009 Visit Wales
television advertising.
Gilbert has done reports for the BBC One current affairs/ human interest show The One Show.
In November 2008, Gilbert appeared on the BBC
's Live at the Apollo as a guest. In December 2009, he hosted the show, introducing fellow comedian John Bishop
. On 6 June 2009 Gilbert appeared as the headline act on Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow
on BBC One
, and he guested on 8 out of 10 Cats on 17 July 2009. He also provided voiceover material for the sketch show Walk on the Wild Side
.
On 19 January 2010, Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience aired on BBC One Wales. Zipline Creative Limited
worked freelance as producer/directors, editors and also camera and sound on the series for Presentable RDF. The four part series saw Gilbert attempt a number of jobs including hairdresser
, refuse collector, soldier
and parent
. Following the show's success on BBC One Wales, the series will air nationally on BBC2 from 10 March. Rhod will be producing a documentary on Welsh comedy for BBC Wales in the new year.
In August 2010, the BBC commissioned eight episodes of Ask Rhod Gilbert
following a successful pilot earlier in 2010. The show features Gilbert, Greg Davies
and Lloyd Langford
answering random trivia questions, such as ‘Who would win in a race, Usain Bolt or a grizzly bear?', posed by the public and celebrities.
comedy panel show Jest a Minute, live from The Comedy Store
in London.
The second series of Jest a Minute was recorded in late 2008 in Cardiff
's Glee Club, hosted by Gilbert and featuring regular team captains Chris Corcoran
and Lloyd Langford
, and guests from the comedy circuit such as Greg Davies
, Lucy Porter
and Jon Richardson
.
Gilbert was also the host of BBC Radio 4
's 4 Stands Up
comedy series which aired in the Autumn of 2008, and has also appeared twice on Radio Four's Just a Minute
, Radio 2's Does the Team Think?, and BBC Radio 4s Act your Age.
In December 2008, a pilot of his sitcom, Rhod Gilbert's Leaving Llanbobl was broadcast on BBC Radio Two; the sitcom was written and starred Rhod Gilbert and Greg Davies
, with additional writing by Sian Harries. Lloyd Langford
played Gilbert's amiable younger brother Emrys, Di Botcher
played Brenda, a gossipy hairdresser, and Mike Hayward played Gilbert's father Gurnos. The show was produced by Ed Morrish. He has hinted in interviews that the sitcom is likely to move to TV when it is completed as he found that he was "seeing it" as he wrote it.
Rhod has also made several appearances on the BBC Radio 4
comedy program The Unbelievable Truth
.
Gilbert currently fronts his own radio show "The Rhod Gilbert Radio Show", broadcast by BBC Radio Wales
on Saturdays between 11am and 1pm, alongside fellow Welsh stand-up comedian Chris Corcoran
.
Rhod has finished recording a new radio show for BBC Radio 2
called Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs
with comedians Lloyd Langford
, Greg Davies
and Sarah Millican
. Each show also features live music from bands such as Athlete
, Scouting for Girls
, Kid British
and The Hoosiers
. This will be broadcast in late August.
2003
2005
2006
2008
2009
2010
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
who was nominated in 2005 for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, he was nominated for the main if.comedy (as the Edinburgh Comedy Awards were then branded).
He appears on television and radio panel shows, has performed stand-up on the Royal Variety Performance
Royal Variety Performance
The Royal Variety Performance is a gala evening held annually in the United Kingdom, which is attended by senior members of the British Royal Family, usually the reigning monarch. In more recent years Queen Elizabeth II and The Prince of Wales have alternately attended the performance...
, and hosts a weekly show on BBC Radio Wales
BBC Radio Wales
BBC Radio Wales is the BBC's national radio station broadcasting to Wales in the English language. Operated by BBC Wales, it began broadcasting on 12 November 1978 following the demise of the old "Radio 4 Wales" when BBC Radio 4 became a national network and moved from medium wave to long wave...
.
Early life
Gilbert was born in CarmarthenCarmarthen
Carmarthen is a community in, and the county town of, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is sited on the River Towy north of its mouth at Carmarthen Bay. In 2001, the population was 14,648....
, Wales and studied languages at Exeter University
University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....
. For the first three weeks, such was his painful shyness that Gilbert was unable to eat with other students in the canteen or even make friends with the student in the next room.
After graduating, Gilbert travelled for a year and a half around Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
before returning to Carmarthen and working as an admin assistant for the Welsh Office
Welsh Office
The Welsh Office was a department in the Government of the United Kingdom with responsibilities for Wales. It was established in April 1965 to execute government policy in Wales, and was headed by the Secretary of State for Wales, a post which had been created in October 1964...
. After this he worked as a qualitative researcher for a number of different market research
Market research
Market research is any organized effort to gather information about markets or customers. It is a very important component of business strategy...
agencies in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
.
Stand-up comedy
Gilbert got into professional comedy in 2002, after taking a comedy workshop course, but only "thanks to a girlfriend’s constant nagging". Within 18 months, Gilbert had already won several different talent competitions. and was nominated for the Perrier Newcomer award for his first solo show in 2005 at Edinburgh Fringe entitled 1984. He has since performed worldwide.Many of Gilbert's stories are based around real life events, and his life in the wholly fictionalised village of Llanbobl. Originally invented to ensure an English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
heckler
Heckler
A heckler is a person who harass and try to disconcert others with questions, challenges, or gibes.Hecklers are often known to shout disparaging comments at a performance or event, or interrupts set-piece speeches, for example at a political meeting, with intent to disturb its performers or...
had nothing real to grasp on to, it has since been geographically defined as being situated between "Wrexham
Wrexham
Wrexham is a town in Wales. It is the administrative centre of the wider Wrexham County Borough, and the largest town in North Wales, located in the east of the region. It is situated between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley close to the border with Cheshire, England...
and Holyhead
Holyhead
Holyhead is the largest town in the county of Anglesey in the North Wales. It is also a major port adjacent to the Irish Sea serving Ireland....
, just north of Newtown, Powys," and a sort of "grown-up Thomas the Tank Engine
Thomas the Tank Engine
Thomas the Tank Engine is a fictional steam locomotive in The Railway Series books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher. He became the most popular character in the series, and the accompanying television spin-off series, Thomas and Friends.Thomas is a tank engine, painted blue...
" location. Gilbert has described the number of audience members that come up to him at the end of shows, and say they have been to Llanbobl for holidays, and even that an English rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
team "hammered" the Llanbobl team. Gilbert also admitted that he "may have 'accidentally' sent the rugby player that told him on a 7 hour goose-chase" to come back to Llanbobl and meet him. In 2008, Gilbert wrote a sitcom
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
around life in Llanbobl, which featured on BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...
.
In his 2006 Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world’s largest arts festival. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August...
show Knocking on Heaven's Door, Gilbert told stories from his life, weighing up whether he would be admitted to heaven. His 2007 show, Who's Eaten Gilbert's Grape? saw Gilbert return to Llanbobl and pick up the story following the 1984 show narrative. His 2008 show, Rhod Gilbert and the Award-Winning Mince Pie, saw Gilbert question his sanity, his career and his life after suffering a mental breakdown brought on by the award-winning mince pie at a motorway services.
On 17 December 2008 he appeared at the 80th Royal Variety Performance
Royal Variety Performance
The Royal Variety Performance is a gala evening held annually in the United Kingdom, which is attended by senior members of the British Royal Family, usually the reigning monarch. In more recent years Queen Elizabeth II and The Prince of Wales have alternately attended the performance...
.
Gilbert's 2009/10 show, entitled Rhod Gilbert And The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Rodney Trotter in Only Fools and Horses, Gary Sparrow in Goodnight Sweetheart, and as Adam Parkinson in Carla Lane's series Butterflies...
, was announced on 5 April. The show previewed around the UK in small venues, before being performed at the Edinburgh Festival. The show toured UK theatres from September 2009.
On 18–19 June 2009, Gilbert made the last performances of Rhod Gilbert And The Award-Winning Mince Pie show at the Bloomsbury Theatre, which was recorded and released as a DVD on 16 November 2009. The DVD also contains several special features, including his infamous rant about lost luggage, outtakes from the performance and a mockumentary
Mockumentary
A mockumentary , is a type of film or television show in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format. These productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictitious setting, or to parody the documentary form itself...
called Back To Llanbobl in which Gilbert shows the viewer around his fictional home town.
From September 2009 to April 2010 he toured the UK with a new show titled Rhod Gilbert and the Cat that Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst; the tour included dates at many prestigious theatres such as London's HMV Hammersmith Apollo
Hammersmith Apollo
Hammersmith Apollo is a major entertainment venue located in Hammersmith, London. Designed by Robert Cromie in Art Deco style, it opened in 1932 as the Gaumont Palace cinema, being re-named the Hammersmith Odeon in 1962...
. A DVD of the tour was released on 15 November 2010.
On 14 October 2010, Gilbert cancelled a stand up show in Swindon
Swindon
Swindon is a large town within the borough of Swindon and ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in South West England. It is midway between Bristol, west and Reading, east. London is east...
after coming down with pneumonia
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...
. In 2011 he is beginning a series of warm-up/new material gigs across the country. One of the first is happening in Machynlleth
Machynlleth
Machynlleth is a market town in Powys, Wales. It is in the Dyfi Valley at the intersection of the A487 and the A489 roads.Machynlleth was the seat of Owain Glyndŵr's Welsh Parliament in 1404, and as such claims to be the "ancient capital of Wales". However, it has never held any official...
, as part of the Machynlleth Comedy Festival. After his 150 date 2009/2010 tour, Rhod is taking a break from stand-up but has revealed he plans to tour again in 2012.
Television
Gilbert has appeared three times on the BBC2 show Mock The WeekMock the Week
Mock the Week is a British topical celebrity panel game hosted by Dara Ó Briain that launched in 2005. The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy, with several rounds requiring players to deliver answers on unexpected subjects on the spur of the moment.It is made by independent...
, and has presented an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game television show with a pop music theme, currently without a permanent presenter. It stars Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding as team captains. The show is produced by Talkback Thames for the BBC, and is usually aired on BBC Two...
in October 2009 and an episode of Have I Got News for You
Have I Got News for You
Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been broadcast since 1990, currently the BBC's longest-ever running television panel show...
in April 2011. He has also appeared as a guest on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
's 8 Out of Ten Cats, and has used his comedy talents to write and narrate BBC Three
BBC Three
BBC Three is a television network from the BBC broadcasting via digital cable, terrestrial, IPTV and satellite platforms. The channel's target audience includes those in the 16-34 year old age group, and has the purpose of providing "innovative" content to younger audiences, focusing on new talent...
's 2007 Goals Galore, Pranks Galore, Football Gaffes Galore and TV Gaffes Galore programmes. He has also presented BBC 2W
BBC 2W
BBC 2W was a digital television channel run by the British Broadcasting Corporation in Wales until January 2009. It replaced the standard BBC Two broadcast on digital services in Wales — running on weekdays from 20:30 to 22:00. Launched on 5 November 2001, it had an initial reach of 1.1...
's, Rhod Gilbert's Teen Tribes, providing an insight into the teen tribal worlds of "Emos", "Chavs" and "Goths".
Gilbert was Paramount Comedy
Paramount Comedy
Paramount Comedy is a 24-hour Spanish cable television and satellite television comedy channel available in Spain. It is owned by MTV Networks Europe and Viacom. In other parts of the world, such as the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and Italy, the channel is known as Comedy Central...
's continuity writer and announcer between September 2004 and October 2005, providing end-credit voice-overs for their peaktime programme schedule.
In December 2008 Gilbert was signed for an advertising campaign to further promote tourism in Wales and became the official Voice Of Wales for the country's tourist-board, fronting the 2009 Visit Wales
Visit Wales
Visit Wales is the Welsh Assembly Government's tourism team within the Department for Heritage to promote Welsh tourism and assist the tourism industry....
television advertising.
Gilbert has done reports for the BBC One current affairs/ human interest show The One Show.
In November 2008, Gilbert appeared on the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
's Live at the Apollo as a guest. In December 2009, he hosted the show, introducing fellow comedian John Bishop
John Bishop (comedian)
John Joseph Bishop is an award-winning comedian.His television debut came on The Panel. As an actor, he has appeared in the E4 teen drama Skins as Mr Fitch, father of twins, Katie and Emily and in the Ken Loach film Route Irish...
. On 6 June 2009 Gilbert appeared as the headline act on Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow
Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow
Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow is a British stand-up comedy television series hosted by comedian Michael McIntyre from different venues around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. The first series was broadcast with six episodes in 2009. Each episode features a routine from McIntyre,...
on BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
, and he guested on 8 out of 10 Cats on 17 July 2009. He also provided voiceover material for the sketch show Walk on the Wild Side
Walk on the Wild Side (TV series)
Walk on the Wild Side is a 2009 British comedy sketch show shown on BBC One. It involves the overdubbing of voiceovers to natural history footage...
.
On 19 January 2010, Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience aired on BBC One Wales. Zipline Creative Limited
Zipline Creative Limited
Zipline Creative Limited is a BAFTA winning South Wales based film production company, famed for its contribution to the internationally successful Cow- Don't Text And Drive campaign with Gwent Police. The company, founded in 2008 by two former BBC employees, is also known for its recent BBC Two TV...
worked freelance as producer/directors, editors and also camera and sound on the series for Presentable RDF. The four part series saw Gilbert attempt a number of jobs including hairdresser
Hairdresser
Hairdresser is a term referring to anyone whose occupation is to cut or style hair in order to change or maintain a person's image. This is achieved using a combination of hair coloring, haircutting, and hair texturing techniques...
, refuse collector, soldier
Soldier
A soldier is a member of the land component of national armed forces; whereas a soldier hired for service in a foreign army would be termed a mercenary...
and parent
Parent
A parent is a caretaker of the offspring in their own species. In humans, a parent is of a child . Children can have one or more parents, but they must have two biological parents. Biological parents consist of the male who sired the child and the female who gave birth to the child...
. Following the show's success on BBC One Wales, the series will air nationally on BBC2 from 10 March. Rhod will be producing a documentary on Welsh comedy for BBC Wales in the new year.
In August 2010, the BBC commissioned eight episodes of Ask Rhod Gilbert
Ask Rhod Gilbert
-External links:*List of at TV.com*List of...
following a successful pilot earlier in 2010. The show features Gilbert, Greg Davies
Greg Davies
Greg Davies is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and former teacher, best known for his roles as Greg in We Are Klang and Mr. Gilbert in The Inbetweeners. He has performed on the BBC's Live at the Apollo series....
and Lloyd Langford
Lloyd Langford
Lloyd Langford is a Welsh comedian and comedy writer. He is originally from Baglan, Neath Port Talbot and currently lives in London...
answering random trivia questions, such as ‘Who would win in a race, Usain Bolt or a grizzly bear?', posed by the public and celebrities.
Radio
In 2006, he hosted the BBC Radio WalesBBC Radio Wales
BBC Radio Wales is the BBC's national radio station broadcasting to Wales in the English language. Operated by BBC Wales, it began broadcasting on 12 November 1978 following the demise of the old "Radio 4 Wales" when BBC Radio 4 became a national network and moved from medium wave to long wave...
comedy panel show Jest a Minute, live from The Comedy Store
The Comedy Store, London
The Comedy Store is a comedy club located in Soho, London, England, opened in 1979 by Don Ward and Peter Rosengard.It was named after The Comedy Store club in the United States, which Rosengard had visited the previous year...
in London.
The second series of Jest a Minute was recorded in late 2008 in Cardiff
Cardiff
Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
's Glee Club, hosted by Gilbert and featuring regular team captains Chris Corcoran
Chris Corcoran
Chris 'Korkey' Corcoran is a Welsh comedian and broadcaster. Originally a History teacher at Barry Comprehensive school. His recent TV credits include Easy Ryder - Chris Corcoran's Guide To The Ryder Cup , Wales and The Other Five Nations - The England Game, Wales and The Other Five Nations - The...
and Lloyd Langford
Lloyd Langford
Lloyd Langford is a Welsh comedian and comedy writer. He is originally from Baglan, Neath Port Talbot and currently lives in London...
, and guests from the comedy circuit such as Greg Davies
Greg Davies
Greg Davies is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and former teacher, best known for his roles as Greg in We Are Klang and Mr. Gilbert in The Inbetweeners. He has performed on the BBC's Live at the Apollo series....
, Lucy Porter
Lucy Porter
Lucy Donna Porter is an English actress, writer and comedienne.She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Festival and many clubs around Britain. She has also a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 in various panel shows, including Quote.....
and Jon Richardson
Jon Richardson
Jon Richardson is a professional footballer, who is currently playing for Worcester City. A central defender, he was originally a trainee at Exeter City, making his debut in 1994...
.
Gilbert was also the host of BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
's 4 Stands Up
4 Stands Up
4 Stands Up is a BBC radio comedy show which has run since December 2007. The programme, which is broadcast on Thursdays at 6:30 pm on BBC Radio 4, contains stand up material from three comedy acts each show, with additional material from the show's host...
comedy series which aired in the Autumn of 2008, and has also appeared twice on Radio Four's Just a Minute
Just a Minute
Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Its first transmission on Radio 4 was on 22 December 1967, three months after the station's launch. The Radio 4 programme won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2003....
, Radio 2's Does the Team Think?, and BBC Radio 4s Act your Age.
In December 2008, a pilot of his sitcom, Rhod Gilbert's Leaving Llanbobl was broadcast on BBC Radio Two; the sitcom was written and starred Rhod Gilbert and Greg Davies
Greg Davies
Greg Davies is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and former teacher, best known for his roles as Greg in We Are Klang and Mr. Gilbert in The Inbetweeners. He has performed on the BBC's Live at the Apollo series....
, with additional writing by Sian Harries. Lloyd Langford
Lloyd Langford
Lloyd Langford is a Welsh comedian and comedy writer. He is originally from Baglan, Neath Port Talbot and currently lives in London...
played Gilbert's amiable younger brother Emrys, Di Botcher
Di Botcher
Di Botcher is a Welsh actress originally from Port Talbot. She has appeared in a series of Post Office advertisements in the UK and she is learning the Welsh language in the Big Welsh Challenge TV show along with Rhod Gilbert and Colin Charvis, with Glyn Wise as her mentor...
played Brenda, a gossipy hairdresser, and Mike Hayward played Gilbert's father Gurnos. The show was produced by Ed Morrish. He has hinted in interviews that the sitcom is likely to move to TV when it is completed as he found that he was "seeing it" as he wrote it.
Rhod has also made several appearances on the BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
comedy program The Unbelievable Truth
The Unbelievable Truth
The Unbelievable Truth is a BBC radio comedy panel game made by Random Entertainment, devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith. It is very similar to the occasional I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue game "Lies, All Lies", which was first played in 1985...
.
Gilbert currently fronts his own radio show "The Rhod Gilbert Radio Show", broadcast by BBC Radio Wales
BBC Radio Wales
BBC Radio Wales is the BBC's national radio station broadcasting to Wales in the English language. Operated by BBC Wales, it began broadcasting on 12 November 1978 following the demise of the old "Radio 4 Wales" when BBC Radio 4 became a national network and moved from medium wave to long wave...
on Saturdays between 11am and 1pm, alongside fellow Welsh stand-up comedian Chris Corcoran
Chris Corcoran
Chris 'Korkey' Corcoran is a Welsh comedian and broadcaster. Originally a History teacher at Barry Comprehensive school. His recent TV credits include Easy Ryder - Chris Corcoran's Guide To The Ryder Cup , Wales and The Other Five Nations - The England Game, Wales and The Other Five Nations - The...
.
Rhod has finished recording a new radio show for BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...
called Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs
Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs
Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs is a 6 part radio show on BBC Radio 2 hosted by comedian Rhod Gilbert. The show is co-hosted by Greg Davies and Lloyd Langford with support from Sarah Millican. Each week the 1 hour show contains a mix of stand up comedy from the regular cast and a guest...
with comedians Lloyd Langford
Lloyd Langford
Lloyd Langford is a Welsh comedian and comedy writer. He is originally from Baglan, Neath Port Talbot and currently lives in London...
, Greg Davies
Greg Davies
Greg Davies is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and former teacher, best known for his roles as Greg in We Are Klang and Mr. Gilbert in The Inbetweeners. He has performed on the BBC's Live at the Apollo series....
and Sarah Millican
Sarah Millican
Sarah Millican is an English stand-up comedian. Millican won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.-Career:...
. Each show also features live music from bands such as Athlete
Athlete (band)
Athlete are a British rock band formed in Deptford, London, comprising Joel Pott , Carey Willetts , Stephen Roberts and Tim Wanstall...
, Scouting for Girls
Scouting for Girls
Scouting for Girls are a Brit and Ivor Novello nominated band from London, formed in 2005 by Roy Stride, Greg Churchouse and Peter Ellard. Stride and Ellard met in the Cub Scouts and Churchouse met Stride on their first day at school. They have sold over 1.2 million albums and over 1.5 million...
, Kid British
Kid British
Kid British, often stylised as KiD BRiTiSH, are a British band from Manchester, United Kingdom. The band is composed of Adio Marchant, James Mayer, Sean Mbaya, Simeon McLean, Dominick Allen, Mykey Wilson and Matt Herod.-History:...
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The Hoosiers
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Awards
2002- Finalist in So You Think You're Funny.
2003
- Winner of the Leicester Mercury comedian of the year as part of the Leicester Comedy Festival
- Winner of the Paramount Gift Of The Gag competition
- Chortle Award nominee for best new act
- Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe2003 Edinburgh Festival FringeThe 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe was the 56th Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Fringe ran from 3–25 August 2003 and presented 1541 shows over 207 venues...
- Runner-up in the Hackney EmpireHackney EmpireThe Hackney Empire is a theatre on Mare Street, in the London Borough of Hackney, built in 1901 as a music hall.-History:Hackney Empire is a grade II* listed building...
New Act of The Year competition - Winner of the Metro and Jongleurs Spike Award for New Talent, South East
- Winner of the National Talent Hunt at the YorkYorkYork is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...
Festival
2005
- Chortle award for Best Breakthrough Act
- Nominated for The List and Writers Guild Comedy Award for "Rhod Gilbert's 1984"
- Perrier nominated for Best Newcomer for "Rhod Gilbert's 1984."
2006
- Placed in The TimesThe TimesThe Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
Top 50 comedians - Named one of The Rough Guide to British Cult Comedy's top 50 icons.
2008
- Nominated for the main IF.COM Eddies (formerly Perrier award) at the Edinburgh fringe for "Rhod Gilbert and the Award-winning Mince Pie"
- Winner of the Time Out 'Comic of the Year'
- Winner of the Time Out 'Best Show of the Year' for "Rhod Gilbert and the Award-winning Mince Pie"
- Winner of the Time Out 'Breakthrough Act'
- Nominated for the Celtic Media awards 'Best Radio Personality' for the "Rhod Gilbert Radio Show" on BBC Radio Wales
2009
- Nominated for the Times/South Bank Show Awards, 'Breakthrough Act'
- Winner of Chortle award for 'Best Headliner'
- Winner of "Comics Comic" Chortle award
- Nominated for the Chortle award for Best Show for "Rhod Gilbert and the Award-winning Mince Pie"
2010
- Winner of 'Wales' Sexiest male'
Stand-Up DVDs
| Title | Released | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Award-Winning Mince Pie | 16 November 2009 | Live at London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... 's Bloomsbury Theatre |
| The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst | 15 November 2010 | Live at London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... 's HMV Hammersmith Apollo |
External links
- Rhod Gilbert BBC radio show
- Review and details of awards
- Funny Money film shorts with Rhod Gilbert for BBC raw money
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